13-letter words containing d, i, n, a, r, s
- like sardines — very closely crowded together
- losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
- macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
- maladminister — to administer or manage badly or inefficiently: The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.
- maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- mandatoriness — The quality or state of being mandatory.
- masterminding — to plan and direct (a usually complex project or activity), especially skillfully: Two colonels had masterminded the revolt.
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- merchandisers — Plural form of merchandiser.
- merchandising — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
- mills grenade — a type of high-explosive grenade weighing about 1.5 pounds (0.7 kg).
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- mistranslated — Simple past tense and past participle of mistranslate.
- misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- moderationist — a person who favors, supports, or promotes moderation.
- modernisation — Alternative spelling of modernization.
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- multistandard — able to process signals from several different systems
- multistranded — having several strands
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondecreasing — not decreasing.
- nonindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- nudiustertian — (rare, obsolete) Of the day before yesterday.
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
- over-standing — overreach (def 13).
- overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
- overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- parris island — a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot, and training station in SE South Carolina, SW of Beaufort and S of Port Royal Island.
- parry islands — former name of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.